Back in March/April when India was in the clutch of a peaking devastating wave of the coronavirus, many Indian Americans mobilized â and continue to do so â to try and help save lives.
Indian American Bollywood stars promoter Rajender Singh is among those who are offering relief for Indians struggling with this deadly disease.
Singh, the CEO of Star Promotions, has been working tirelessly for the past two months towards alleviating suffering during this pandemic. So far, he has shipped 210 oxygen concentrators, 50 oxygen cylinders and dozens of oximeters to India.
One midnight call, one WhatsApp message and then came a steady stream of calls for help after he posted a message on a whim on his Facebook page that he was willing to provide Covid-related help to anyone in need, Singh told India-West.
Despite deaths, no isolation centre in this Hisar village
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Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing
underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice,
they prioritize militarized responses that are not only
abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive.
African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic
narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country
is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords,
but by the less visible kinds of violence that prevail around the
world: violence against women or the everyday violence of crime and
discrimination against immigrants.
India Covid Crisis: Prison officials seek to stop jails from overcrowding
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Officials suggest arresting only those indulging in serious offences.
The ongoing Covid crisis has resulted in a strange situation with the head of the prisons department in Maharashtra telling top police officials to only arrest criminals indulging in serious offences and not those engaged in petty crimes including gambling and prohibition related ones.
Sunil Ramanand, the additional director-general, prisons, has written to senior police officers in the state asking for help in decongesting about 60 jails in the state to prevent the spread of Covid-19 among the inmates and the prison staff. Most of the jails are overcrowded and there is hardly any room to ensure social distancing.
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